Ippolit N. Myshkin

Ippolit Nikitich Myshkin (3 February 1848-7 February 1885) was a Russian revolutionary activist during the 19th century.

Biography
Ippolit Nikitich Myshkin was born on 3 February 1848 in Pskov, Russian Empire, and he studied at the Academy of the General Staff, hoping to serve in the Imperial Russian Army. In 1873, he began to work at a printing house that produced socialist propaganda, and he fled to Switzerland when the printing house was closed down; he would return to Russia to free Nikolay Chernyshevsky from imprisonment in Siberia. He was sentenced to ten years' hard labor, and he was imprionsed at the Peter and Paul Fortress of St. Petersburg. In August 1884, Myshkin was transferred to Shlisselburg, and he threw a plate at a caretaker in protest of the prison regime. On 7 February 1885, he was executed by firing squad for his actions.